Letters received by Sarah Carlin (nee Brooke) by friends, family and her husband Frederick Benjamin Carlin.

A collection of letters mainly from Australia, written between the years 1833 and 1855, for the most part to William and Julia Archer of Tolderodden, Laurvig, Norway, by those of their sons who emigrated within this period to New South Wales.

Copy of a letter from Henry Hallam to his friend Thomas Butt, 1834 Sep 11, concerning various contemporary social, literary and educational matters.
Also biographical notes (2 p.) by F.W. Robinson on persons concerned.

Books presented by Fanny Kingsley to her youngest son Grenville Kingsley. Extra-illustrated with photographs, including portrait photographs of Charles and Fanny Kingsley as well as their four children Rose, Maurice, Mary and Grenville.

Inscribed on the the title page to ‘Grenville A Kingsley from his Mother 1890’.
Kingsley family armorial bookplate on inside upper board.
Old ownership entry of J Sidgwick on endpaper.

Handwritten, signed letter to cousin Joseph, on family matters. Letterhead: W.D. Mathews & Sons, shipbrokers Penzance.
Accompanied by financial statement to owners of the ship Catherine, per Bolds & Joy, (1848), testimonial from inhabitants of Milford and Hakin, shippers of goods from Milford Haven to Bristol in steam vessel County of Pembroke, to Captain B.R. Mathews, (1835), and testimonial from passengers in vessel commanded by Captain Mathews (1835), including signatures of passengers and headed: Off Port Phillip Heads, 15 Oct 1853..

Conditional pardon no. 208 granted to Francisco Joseph, 7 January 1835, signed Major General Richard Bourke and Alexander MacLeay.

Facsimile of original held in La Trobe Library.

The Carlin Family Papers contain the correspondence of Sarah Carlin (nee Brooke) and her husband Frederick Benjamin Carlin, their daughter Ethel Maud 'Nettie' Darling and her daughter Mary 'Molly' Flewell-Smith. The papers were collected together by Oriel C. Morris, the daughter of Mary Flewell-Smith.
The earliest correspondence contained here are letters from friends and family received by Sarah Brooke before her marriage to Frederick Benjamin Carlin. The Carlins emigrated to South Australia in ca. 1849 and the correspondence contains letters written and received by them and from their families in England, including letters Sarah Carlin sent to her parents William and Dinah Brooke. The papers also contain letters received by the Carlins daughter Ethel Maud 'Nettie' Darling (nee Carlin). This includes letters from her husband Charles Alfred Darling and her daughter Mary Ethel Carlin 'Molly' Flewell-Smith (nee Darling) . There is also some genealogical material compiled by Oriel Morris (nee Flewell-Smith) tracing the Carlin (1792-1850) ; The papers also contain a couple of unidentified photographs, Masonic membership certificates from London as well as a facsimile issue of the 'London Post' from 1745.